All the Coal, None of the Carbon- Almost

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[h/t amirlach] It looks like the radical environmental left may have to find a new favorite dirty four letter word.  Scientists at Ohio State University have announced the discovery of a new process that takes the energy from coal without burning it – “and removes virtually all of the pollution.”

The technology, known as Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CCDL), captures more than 99 percent of coal’s carbon dioxide emissions based on laboratory research.  The team of scientists led by Liang-Shih Fan, professor of chemical engineering and director of the Clean Coal Research Laboratory at Ohio State University, has been working on this and other clean coal technologies for 15 years with funding by the Department of Energy.

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